Example sentences of "[verb] what you [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Marpole highlights what you can see country-wide and outlines a fascinating walk in the Norfolk Broads |
| 2 | A , a sentence on everything you can , think of that , that relates to it , but if you do , do practise them , it 's only just to , to talk about it , it 's difficult to know what you can write in fifteen minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ It is the butcher , ’ she said , ‘ I have to know what you will want . |
| 4 | So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’ |
| 5 | You grab what you can get and then you desert me . ’ |
| 6 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 8 | For each of the following sets of data , based on non-RP accents , say what you can conclude about the phonology of that accent . |
| 9 | Into sales from being what I would call an artisan and er I do n't know what you would call yourself , but somebody who does things erm er on a er manual stroke artisan type work , over to sales . |
| 10 | Do you know what you ought to do ? |
| 11 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 12 | And they , I do n't know what you 'll think , but they reckon they spend at least two to three days average in the first week of the new month purely doing new reports . |
| 13 | So you do n't know what you 'll start with , you 'll actually bring in . |
| 14 | You do n't know what you 'll catch ! |
| 15 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 16 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 17 | You would never quite know what you might find here ; you would certainly find unexpected flights of stairs which might lead anywhere at all , and you would surely sometimes come upon doorways you had not known existed . |
| 18 | But , like , you do n't know what you might have prevented ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 19 | As a photographic subject , but yeah , I , it 's simple and it 's , it 's a bit sort of small , the actual , I do n't know how you could make it any bigger but I do do n't know what you could do . |
| 20 | Do you know what you can wear underneath it ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not going to do anything , except wait and see how the police get on , ’ said Joe , ‘ and I do n't know what you can do except tell the police that you got acquainted with the unfortunate bloke when he came after you for nicking that wallet from Blackbeard . |
| 22 | I do n't know what you can do about it though because if people are that thick , there 's nothing much you can do about it is there ? |
| 23 | Well it is awful but I do n't know what you can do about it ! |
| 24 | You do not know what you can achieve until you try . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know what you can have to ask me about Mr Hatton 's teeth , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Then again I think most of the people here are , I do n't know what you can get away with . |
| 27 | Do you know what you will do ? |
| 28 | But do you know what you will do when you get there ? ’ |
| 29 | Well it costs a lot , and I do n't know what you will buy Saturday . |
| 30 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |